LittleGreyCat
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I'm tending towards "condition", at least whilst it is under control
If you have had a heart attack you have heart disease; if you have high cholesterol you have a condition which may or may not be doing you damage and you may never have heart disease or a heart attack.
I tend to think of a disease as something that comes on and can be either cured or it kills you. A condition is more like a short left leg; something you expect to have for the rest of your life and you just accept and get on with it.
It is all semantics. I'm not bothered if I describe my T2 as a condition and other people don't take it seriously. I take it seriously and I manage it by diet and exercise (with a bit of help from Metformin) . They can get sniffy if I refuse to eat something "just this once" but that is their problem. I control what goes into my body, they don't.
I don't like the idea of a disease but that is just my personal reaction to the word. Sounds a bit dirty (in a bad way). Having a condition is just something which is a natural part of my life.
If you have had a heart attack you have heart disease; if you have high cholesterol you have a condition which may or may not be doing you damage and you may never have heart disease or a heart attack.
I tend to think of a disease as something that comes on and can be either cured or it kills you. A condition is more like a short left leg; something you expect to have for the rest of your life and you just accept and get on with it.
It is all semantics. I'm not bothered if I describe my T2 as a condition and other people don't take it seriously. I take it seriously and I manage it by diet and exercise (with a bit of help from Metformin) . They can get sniffy if I refuse to eat something "just this once" but that is their problem. I control what goes into my body, they don't.
I don't like the idea of a disease but that is just my personal reaction to the word. Sounds a bit dirty (in a bad way). Having a condition is just something which is a natural part of my life.
